Location : North West of France.  Chief town:  Rouen.

 

Delimitation of the territory: 5 departments : Seine-Maritime (76), Eure (27), Calvados (14), Orne (61) and Manche (50), 2885 municipalities and 1 metropolis: Rouen.

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Hydrography: Channel Sea, Seine, Orne and Eure.

 

Borders: Brittany in the West, Pays-de-la-Loire in the South-West,

Centre-Val-de-Loire in the South-East, Île-de-France in the East and Hauts-de-France in the North-East.

 

Physical geography :  archipelagos, islands shared with England, fields, groves, countryside, cliffs, pebble beaches and fine sand, meadows, valleys, forests, etc.  

Area: 29,907 km2 // 640 km of coastline from the Baie de Somme to Mont Saint-Michel.

 

Clichés: apples, cider, cows, Mont Saint-Michel and rain.